🏃 Move🌎 Nature🏃 Active
🧘 Animal Yoga
Three animal poses, three breaths each, ending as a starfish.
Ages
3–5
Duration
15 min
Cost
Free
👶 Kid challenge
Easy
🧑 Parent energy
Light · no prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Soft floor, no head or neck weight, and never push a stretch.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Balance
- ✓Calming down
What you need
A rug
How to do it
- 1Try three poses: tree, cat, snake.
- 2Hold each for three breaths.
- 3End lying flat like a starfish.
How it actually goes
The honest version — including what "going well" looks like at this age.
- ⏱ 30-second set-up
- Thirty seconds: put a rug on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do
- Climb, carry, balance and wobble — and try it again faster.
- ✅ What success looks like
- At 3–4 they'll repeat it, narrate it, and want to change the rules. Let them change the rules.
- 🧺 How to put it away
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it
- Older? Add a timer, or let them design the next round.